** Mr. Fanservice: Deeks in the pool in the ChurchOfHappyology episode and in the fall 2016 premier when a wannabe terrorist forces him to strip ("Really?!") so he does it as slowly as possible to give the team time to catch up.

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** Mr. Fanservice: Deeks in the pool in the ChurchOfHappyology episode and in the fall 2016 premier premiere when a wannabe terrorist forces him to strip ("Really?!") so he does it as slowly as possible to give the team time to catch up.

* HeroicSacrifice: Non-fatal version (hopefully): [[spoiler: In part two of the fall 2016 season premier Hetty declares herself to be the mole to Agent Duggan to spare her team from getting into too much trouble for carrying out an illegal air strike in Syria in Duggan's name. Even Duggan knows [[SenselessSacrifice no one would think Hetty is a traitor for even a second]] but he can't resist.]]* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Granger gets rather annoyed when Nell thanks him for letting her "tag along" on a mission -- he didn't let her "tag along", he brought her because she's a capable agent and ''she should never forget that.''

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* HeroicSacrifice: Non-fatal version (hopefully): [[spoiler: In part two of the fall 2016 season premier premiere, Hetty declares herself to be the mole to Agent Duggan to spare her team from getting into too much trouble for carrying out an illegal air strike in Syria in Duggan's name. Even Duggan knows [[SenselessSacrifice no one would think Hetty is a traitor for even a second]] but he can't resist.]]* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Granger gets rather annoyed when Nell thanks him for letting her "tag along" on a mission -- he didn't let her "tag along", along"; he brought her because she's a capable agent and ''she should never forget that.''

* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Being on the hit list of a notorious crime family on top of being a CIA agent who helps people escape from dictatorships and who knows what else is a fairly understandable if not forgivable reason.

** Narrowly averted in "Glasnost" when [[spoiler: Garrison allowed himself to be captured by thugs hired by a Russian contact to tie up loose ends before he takes higher office (they believe) because they were targeting a woman and her son who turned out to be Garrison's daughter and grandson/Callen's half-sister and nephew and had already killed Garrison's lover. At the woman's funeral Callen decides to tell his new relatives the truth about who he and Garrison are ("No more secrets"), to which Garrison agrees.]]

** Fans are disserved again when Eric theorizes that [[ShipperOnDeck Granger is romantically involved with suspected North Korean spy "Jennifer Kim"]], who is young enough to be his daughter [[spoiler: and is in fact his ''actual'' daughter]]. Nell, who has no idea why Granger is so interested in the spy, quickly shoots that theory down.

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** Fans are disserved again when Eric theorizes that [[ShipperOnDeck Granger is romantically involved with suspected North Korean spy "Jennifer Kim"]], who is young enough to be his daughter [[spoiler: and is in fact his ''actual'' daughter]]. Nell, who while she has no idea why Granger is so interested in the spy, quickly shoots that theory down.

* HiddenHeartOfGold: CIA Agent "Garrison" may seem cold but he's got a nice side since he's [[spoiler: helped hundreds of people find safety and donated millions of a Russian agent's ill-gotten gains to various charities. Callen won't forgive him for "abandoning" him and his sister but he does understand why]].

** [[spoiler: ThereIsAnother... or was: Callen had a sister; unfortunately she died and only called him "little brother". His father might be alive as well.]]

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** ThereIsAnother: [[spoiler: ThereIsAnother... or was: Callen had a sister; unfortunately she died and only called him "little brother". His father might be is alive as well.and eventually Callen learns he has a half-sister and nephew, plus a "stepmother" he unknowingly met before she died of polonium poisoning.]]

** [[spoiler: It's also implied she knows and would rather spend one day in her home country with her brother and be doomed than the rest of her life safe and isolated and miserable in a strange land (Wisconsin). Fortunately when she returns to Africa she's saved by her ''fiance'' -- a Somalian general who rescued her from her brother's compound]]

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** [[spoiler: It's also implied she knows and would rather spend one day in her home country with her brother and be doomed than the rest of her life safe and isolated and miserable in a strange land (Wisconsin). Fortunately when she returns to Africa she's saved by her ''fiance'' -- a good-guy Somalian general who rescued her from her brother's compound]]

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The 2007 coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea as mentioned in "Tuhon" is based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Equatorial_Guinea_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt 2004 coup attempt lead by an ex-British [=SAS=] operator.]]

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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: RippedFromTheHeadlines:** The 2007 coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea as mentioned in "Tuhon" is based on the [[http://oraclesyndicate.twoday.net/stories/2534432 2004 coup attempt lead by an ex-British [=SAS=] operator.]]** "Glasnost": Russian polonium poisoning victim [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Equatorial_Guinea_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt 2004 coup attempt lead by an ex-British [=SAS=] operator.]]org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko Alexander Litveinenko]] is name-checked when the victim-of-the-week is killed the same way.

The LA team is headed up by Henrietta "Hetty" Lange, a diminutive woman with a penchant for fashion and more connections than most people could dream up. G. Callen (O'Donnell) and Sam Hanna are both field agents and best friends. Hanna is an ex-Navy Seal while Callen carries some emotional baggage over his childhood spent in foster care and not actually knowing what the "G" in his name stands for. Rounding out the team are junior field agents Kensi Blye and Dom Vail, who haven't seen quite the same CharacterDevelopment as the leads, but just give it time. The LA branch also boasts its own tech wizard in Eric Beale. A new role for the franchise is that of an operational psychologist, Dr. Nate Getz, whose job it is to evaluate the team's mental stability.

The show is now in its seventh season.

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The LA team is headed up by Henrietta "Hetty" Lange, a diminutive woman with a penchant for fashion and more connections than most people could dream up. G. Callen (O'Donnell) and Sam Hanna are both field agents and best friends. Hanna is an ex-Navy Seal while Callen carries some emotional baggage over his childhood spent in foster care and not actually knowing what the "G" in his name stands for. Rounding out the team are junior field agents Kensi Blye and Dom Vail, who haven't seen quite the same CharacterDevelopment as the leads, but just give it time. The LA branch also boasts its own tech wizard in Eric Beale. A new role for the franchise is that of an operational psychologist, Dr. Nate Getz, whose job it is to evaluate the team's mental stability.

stability. Joining the team later on are NCIS Analyst Nell Jones and NCIS Assistant Director Owen Granger.

* OneLetterName: G Callen. The G stands for [[spoiler: {{s|chmuckBait}}omething. Too bad the building where the pertinent information was stored exploded, his mother was murdered, his sister drowned, the matriarch of the crime family hunting his was shot and her hard drive stolen... Though it is revealed that his grandfather's name was Gerald.]]** In "Matryoshka part 2" [[spoiler: it's heavily implied that CIA safehouse-keeper Garrison is Callen's real dad and reveals the G stands for Grisha A[''really'' long middle name] Nikaelovich; later episodes confirm both]].

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* OneLetterName: G Callen. The G stands for [[spoiler: {{s|chmuckBait}}omething. Too bad the building where the pertinent information was stored exploded, his mother was murdered, his sister drowned, the matriarch of the crime family hunting his was shot and her hard drive stolen... Though it is revealed that his grandfather's name was Gerald.George.]]** In "Matryoshka part 2" [[spoiler: it's heavily implied that CIA safehouse-keeper Garrison is Callen's real dad and reveals the G stands for Grisha A[''really'' long middle name] Aleksandrovich Nikaelovich; later episodes confirm both]].

* WasItReallyWorthIt: Deeks asks this question at the end of "Belly of the Beast"; they had captured a terrorist, but [[spoiler: Kensi was critically injured, and additionally back in Los Angeles, Eric must now live with a body count, having commandeered a Predator and forced to fire on a group of terrorists, and Hetty's been arrested by Duggan.]]

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